- Review of "Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and Swiss Banks," with attention paid to the battle between Ed Fagan and Michael Hausfeld. [Trask]
- Second Circuit acts to narrow Twombly in antitrust conspiracy case. [WLF; CPI Antitrust Journal; Loeb & Loeb; Class Action Defense blog; Starr v. Sony BMG]
- More on the party-line Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Goodwin Liu. [Bader @ Examiner; Judicial Crisis Network coverage]
- $28 million in punitive damages for bedsore in Sacramento. [Sacramento Bee via Cal Biz Lit and Cutting]
- Husband discovers wife is having affair through cell-phone bill, divorces her; wife sues cell-phone company. [Toronto Star (h/t M.Y.)]
- Governor Christie gives a straight answer, but the Star-Ledger is not impressed. [Star-Ledger]
- Obama administration apologizes to China for human rights violations. No, sadly, I don't have that backwards. [Daily Caller; Corner; Powerline]
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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| Laura Eyi Press Officer, Manhattan Institute leyi@manhattan-institute.org |



